this study used proficiency as an effective personal resource on work engagement according to the job demand-resource model of bakker and demerouti (2008). this was a descriptive and cross-sectional survey. the sample includes 395 employees from four public organizations selected randomly. descriptive statistic was used to examine the demographic variables and inferential statistical such as in...

Verbal working memory is recognized as a strong predictor of L2 reading development in the area of learning new vocabulary, reading comprehension, and overall L2 proficiency in alphabetic languages such as English. However, few studies have addressed if the same is true in logographic languages such as Japanese. Previous literature has indicated that phonology plays a weaker role in reading Jap...

The current study was an attempt to investigate the effect of performing Focus on Form (FoF), Focus on Meaning (FoM), and Focus on Forms (FoFs) instructions on the development of collocational knowledge among Iranian intermediate EFL learners, and to explore any significant difference on the achievement of the participants' collocational knowledge among three groups. In so doing, 107 female int...

The purpose of this research is to produce a web-based application for the aptitude test members Indonesian National Police. type used in development with Research & Development (R&D) design from Borg and Gall. This was conducted 9 stages namely, (1) information collecting, (2) Planning, (3) Develop preliminary form product, (4) Preminary field testing, (5) Main product revision, (6) (7...

As one of Indonesia’s most prominent foreign languages, English is essential in education. The importance reflected the fact that it taught from elementary school through university and even used as a requirement for graduation or employment. Passing campus-provided Proficiency Test Teknokrat University students. result, learning mastering an important step students.When comes to teaching class...

The purpose of this experiment was to explore whether listening positions (close or distant location from the sound source) in the classroom, and classroom reverberation, influence students' score on a test for second-language (L2) listening comprehension (i.e., comprehension of English in Swedish speaking participants). The listening comprehension test administered was part of a standardized n...

The demonstration by Nelson and Mayer (1949) of an antibody in syphilitic sera that immobilizes virulent Treponema pallidum in the presence of complement in vitro led to the development (Nelson and Mayer, 1949; Nelson and Diesendruck, 1951) of a T. pallidum immobilization (TPI) test for use in the case of individuals who might repeatedly give a positive reaction to other tests for syphilis but ...